A group of craftsmen initiated the project. All its members decided to share their various trades to make a guitar full of signification, new, the very identity of each being reflected in the DNA of the instrument. Everyone put its guts and a little of his history in it : The wood came from Corrèze, plates were engraved in Jura, body engraving made near Nantes… The aesthetics is a mixture of several styles: a Mosrite shape, a Bigsby headstock, a vegetal engraving, a natural finish. Completion was very fast, approximately 3 months, thanks to the combined efforts of these 20 craftsmen. The guitar transited throughout France, according to its evolution. Always handled by the craftsmen right after arrival.

The money collected during its sale will go to charity. Some luthiers wish to fight against deforestation because this problem is in direct link with their job: Some try to supply their material from local or salvage wood. Others prefer investing in educating children in sustainable development and crafts. Indeed, the first gestures of our environment’s recovery goes through rediscovering local small crafts.

Guitar-making trade has been stigmatized for about thirty years as a closed, compartmentalized and elitist world. La Dissidente also militate and to educate against this reputation. We are here for everybody and for every instruments. Craftsmen’s guitars are not the privilege of a category but a simple tool created to induce pleasure for the largest number, no matter where they come from and whom they are.

This project also shows that there is no competition, each has his own style. The musician reaches towards the guitar maker who corresponds to him best, in spite of the industry’s omnipresence. We can read in some articles that guitars are less sold lately, but which ones? Guitars mass produced, without soul? There’s more and more independant guitar builders, who live off their work. Their bottom price is undoubtedly higher but it calls for a much superior quality! And the guitar is unique, just like its creator. In most cases, these craftsmen are self-taught who chose to leave a stable job to dash into what makes them vibrate, as well as getting the opportunity to live off their passion and to value manual work. Every creation is a journey, an almost initiatory route between the guitar maker and the guitarist. The latter must be able to express what he has in the depths of himself; the luthier has to fight with himself in terms of ingenuity to give birth to the dream of his client.

The Dissident defends all these values, and much more. Rather than being offered to the richest bidder, it will be drawn by lot for the value of a one lottery ticket, the collected sum of the lottery being concretely invested in the works for which we fight.

Like a superband, we created a superworkshop. This guitar is a real technical and aesthetical success and proves it! Each one of us went all-out in every stages of crafting, bringing his own touch, to make it a collector’s item. We do not wish to see her fade under glass … Hence the idea of selling her in lottery rather than through auction: The one who will grab his hands on this instrument of exception is not going to be the richest, but the most fortunate!